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(Joseph Miller)Botanicum Officinale: or a Compendious Herbal: (giving an account of all such plants as are now used in the practice of physick. With their descriptions and virtues)London printed for E. Bell, J. Senex, W. Taylor, and J. Osborn 1722 No ISBN Early Edition Hardcover Fair Condition No Dust Jacket Title page is missing, bibliographic data by reference to COPAC. Nothing before dedication. Decorated leather binding with raised bands on spine, leather is rubbed, wear at spine-ends, front joint is cracked through with cover attached only by cords, internal binding is sound except for missing end-paper and title-page. Decorative woodcuts to first dedication page, first page of preface and first page of text, final pages and index. Vertical block edge is lightly marked, pages are clean. At rear includes Omissum, Index Rerum, A Table of the English Names, An Explanation of some Abbreviations and particular Terms made use of in this Herbal. [6], 466, [22]. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15117021042. Hardcover
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183.20 GBP

AristotleAristotle's Works Compleated in Four Parts. Containing: I The Compleat Master-Piece Displacing the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man; II His Compleat and Experienced Midwife etc.London Ware, Hitch and Hodges 1749 No ISBN Early Edition Hardcover Good Condition No Dust Jacket Leather covers are rubbed, wear at head of spine, sound binding, clean pages. Four parts in one binding, frontises and illustrations. Aristotle's Works Compleated in Four Parts. Containing: I The Compleat Master-Piece Displacing the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. Regularly digested into Chapters and Sections, rendering it far more useful and easy than any yet extant. To which is added, A Treasure of Health or The Family Physician, Being Choice and Approved Remedies for all the several Distempers incident to Human Bodies. The Twenty-Fifth Edition, 1753. Double sided frontis and vignette illustrations. 144 pages. II His Compleat and Experienced Midwife In Two Parts. I. Guide for the Child-Bearing Women, In the Time of their Conception, Bearing ans Suckling, with the best Means of Helping them, both in Natural and Unnatural Labours: Together with suuitable Remedies for the various Indispositions of New-born Infants. II. Proper and safe Remedies for the Curing all those Distempers that are incident to the Female Sex and more especially those that are any Obstruction to their Bearing of Children. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant, and highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-bearing Women. Made English by W-S-, MD, the Tenth Edition, London. Frontis, fold-out plate, 156 pages. Contents list for Parts I and II. Aristotle's Book of Problems, with other Astronomers, Astrologers, Physicians and Philosophers, Wherein is contain'd divers Questions and Answers Touching the State of Man's Body. Together with The Reasons of divers Wonders in the Crearion: The Generation of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, and Insects; and many other Problems on the most weighty Matters, by Way of Question and Answer. The Twenty-sixth Edition, London, 1749, 152 pages. Frontis. Lower corners (margins) of pages 25-28 are missing and short tears across upper corners . Aristotle's Last Legacy, Unfolding the Mysteries of Nature In the Generation of Man: Treating I Of Virginity, Its Signs and Tokens, and how a Man may know whether he married a Virgin or not. II Of the Organs of Generation in Women with a Description of the Fabrick of the Womb. III Of the Use and Actions og Genitals in the Work of generation; IV Of Conception, and how to know whether a Woman has conciev'd, and whether of a Male or Female. V Of the Pleasure and Advantage: with the unhappy Consequences of unequal Matches, and Miseries of Unlawful Love. VI Of Barrenness. with Remedy against it: and the signs of Insufficiency, both in Men and Women. VII Directions to both Sexes how to manage themselves in the Act of Coition, or their Venereal Embraces. VIII A Vade Mercum for Midwives and Nurses taining particular Directions for the faithful Discharge of their several Employments. IX Excellent Remedies against all Diseases incident to Virgins and Child-Bearing Women: Fitted for the Use of Midwives, Nurses and all such Persons only as concerned in these Matters. London, Printed for R Ware on Ludgate-Hill, C Hitch in Pater-noster-Row and J Hodges on London-Bridge. 1749. Frontis, 113 pages. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15018031087. Hardcover
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Brian & Dorothy PayneExtracts from the Journals of John Deakin Heaton, M.D. of Claremont, LeedsThoresby Society 1972 No ISBN Reprint Softcover Fine Condition No Dust Jacket John Deakin Heaton was an eminent citizen of Leeds in the ninettenth century, President of the Leeds Philiosophical and Lierary Society, Chairman of the Council, one of the founders of the Yorkshire College of Science (now the University of Leeds), Physician to the Public Dispensary, the House of Recovery and Leeds General infirmary and a lecturer at the Medical School. This booklet is a reprinted extract from the Publications of the Thoresby Society Miscellany, Volume 15. Black and white frontis portrait. Crisp clean grey card covers, palin spine, tight binding, clean pages. No dust jacket, as published. Estimated date only. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500g. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50312100096. Paperback
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15.20 GBP

Geo, HartmanThe Family Physitian, or a Collection of Choice, Approv'd and Experienc'd Remedies for the Cure of Almost all Diseases incident to Humane Bodies, whether Interal or External; useful in Families etc.London Richard Wellington 1696 No ISBN First Edition Hardcover Fair Condition No Dust Jacket Full title is: The Family Physitian, or a Collection of Choice, Approv'd and Experienc'd Remedies for the Cure of Almost all Diseases incident to Humane Bodies, whether Interal or External; useful in Families, and very servicable to Country People. Containig Some hundreds of considerable Recipes and Secrets of great Valuue, with Observations of great Cures. Together with the true English Wineceller and the Right Method of making English Wines or Metheglin: With a Collection of the Choicest and the Safest Cosmetick Remedies for Preserving the Beauty and Complection of Ladies, never before Published Contains: Free end-paper with previous owner's name and date of 1730; Advertisements for "the whole Works of that Excellent Practical Physitian, Dr Thomas Sydenham" and "Vade Mecum" by Sir Sam Morland; Title-page with same previous owner's name; Note "To the Courteous Reader" from the author; Fold-out frontis showing distilling aparatus with fold-out half missing and descriptions; Index; 528 pages; rear free end-paper. Leather binding, possible original, with raised bands on spine has loss at front and rear and on spine-ends and the rear cover is detached and front cover is attached only by cords. Foxing throughout, rear end-paper has note on reverse has small holes and loss on lower edge. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15014080026. Hardcover
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684.00 GBP

H Crichton MillerThe New Psychology and the PreacherLondon Jarrolds 1924 No ISBN First Edition Hardcover Good Condition No Dust Jacket Blue covers with gilt lettering on spine are lightly marked, sound binding, clean pages. Ex-library book from Lincoln Cathedral and the Sibthorpe Library with bookplate and date-sheet with withdrawn stamps at front, library stamps on the reverse of the title-page and in the lower margin on page 17. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70111120112. Hardcover
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4.20 GBP